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Ives Goddard

Native Writings in Massachusett (2 volume Set)

$115.00

An edition of all known manuscript writings in the Massachusetts language by native speakers. Basic linguistic, historical, and ethnographic analyses are included. Massachusetts is an extinct Eastern Algonquian language spoken aboriginally and in the Colonial period in what is now southeastern Massachusetts. The Indians speaking this language are those referred to as the Massachusetts, the Wampanoags (or Pokanokets), and the Nausets, who inhabited the region encompassing the immediate Boston area and the area east of Narragansett Bay, incl. Cape Cod, the Elizabeth Isl., Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket. Illus. with original documents. In two volumes.

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Paul Botley

Learning Greek in Western Europe, 1396-1529

$60.00

This book is a guide to the basic tools of Renaissance Greek studies and their use in the classrooms of the 15th and 16th centuries. Author Paul Botley examines the origins and diffusion of 21 Greek grammars composed during the period, explores the development of Greek lexicography during the Renaissance and its relationship with surviving ancient and Byzantine Greek lexica, and studies the fortunes of the Greek authors known to have been used by Renaissance students. The book concludes with two appendices that catalog all Greek grammatical and lexical works printed before 1530.

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Jonathan E. Rhoads

American Philosophical Society and the Royal Society

$40.00

This is a print on demand publication. For the first time the American Philosophical Society and the Royal Society held a joint meeting in London in 1980. The program of the joint meeting consisted of two sessions, at which the following papers were presented: Foreword, by Jonathan E. Rhoads; Delayed-Choice Experiments and the Bohr-Einstein Dialog, by John Archibald Wheeler; Ways of Seeing, or Epistemology in the Arts: Unities and Disunities in Shakespearean Drama and Elizabethan Painting, by Roland Mushat Frye; and Benjamin Franklin, The British Statesman: A Reappraisal, by Esmond Wright. Illus.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book, 1766-1824

$115.00

This “Garden Book” contains the most varied entries of all Thomas Jefferson’s memorandum books. The book that began as a diary of the garden became a written repository for numerous interests of Jefferson. The entries range from contracts with overseers, plans for building roads and fish ponds, and observations on the greatest flood in Albemarle, to comments on Mrs. Wythe’s wine and figures on the number of strawberries in a pint measure. Jefferson’s love of nature was so intense that his observant eye caught almost every passing change in it. And whatever he saw rarely escaped being recorded. The varied entries also give us a clue as to his interests in introducing new plants and in improving farming, horticulture, viticulture, and many other aspects of the rural life of his time. These interests at Monticello were also tied up with agricultural and horticultural needs of the U.S. Includes annotations by Edwin Morris Betts. Illus.

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Joseph R. McElrath

Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris 1896-1898

$60.00

Frank Norris (1870-1902) has long been recognized by cultural historians as a “touchstone” figure, clearly signaling in 1899 the emergence of an Amer. school of Literary Naturalism. “McTeague: A Story of San Francisco” secured this honor for him that year as it registered more fully than any previous Amer. novel the Darwinian view of life that is the essential characteristic of all subsequent Naturalistic fictions. It thus marked as well the rejection of the Victorian Era’s habitually idealistic representations of human nature and its basically religious world-view, offering instead a post-metaphysical portrait of the human condition that has remained popular in 20th-cent. literary and intellectual circles. Includes all of the known writings of Norris published between 11 April 1896 and 1897. Illus.

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M.F. Hearn

Ripon Minster

$45.00

This is a print on demand publication. Ripon Cathedral, anciently one of the four minsters of the archdiocese of York, England, was designated a cathedral when the new diocese of Ripon was created in 1836. In the history of architecture it is properly known as Ripon Minster, a collegiate foundation of secular canons who maintained the daily cycle of liturgical offices but who also ministered to the laity. Contents of this study: (I) Archaeological Interpretation: The Actual & Intended Forms; (II) Historical Interpretation: The Dates of Construction; The Patron & His Purposes; A Search for the Origin of the Ripon Master; & The English Concept of the Gothic Style. Black & white plates & plans.

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George Cardona

Studies in Indian Grammarians. I. The Method of Descriptions Reflected in the Silvasutras

$90.00

This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

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Estelle Haan

Sporting with the Classics

$45.00

Focuses on the original Latin poetry of William Dillingham, a 17th-cent. editor, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge Univ. It does so in an attempt to disprove claims that Dillingham’s talent lay in criticism rather than in original composition, and that his Latin verse shows his complete independence of the old school of classical imitation. This study highlights both the classical and the contemporary intertexts with which this hitherto neglected poetry engages. This highly talented verse “sports” with the classics in several ways: first in its self-consciously interaction with the Latin poets Virgil and Ovid; second in its appropriation of a classical world and its linguistic medium to describe such 17th-cent. sports or pastimes as bowling, horticulture, and bell-ringing.

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American Philosophical Society

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Old Series, Vol 2, 1786

$95.00

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Old Series, Vol. 1-6, 1769-1809

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Hui-Lin Li

Floristic Relationships Between Eastern Asia and Eastern North America

$90.00

This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. More than 50 maps.

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John Wilton Appel

Francisco Jose de Caldas

$45.00

A study of Francisco Jose de Caldas y Tenorio, who was born in 1768 in the Spanish colony Nueva Reino de Granada. In the first half of the 18th century France sent an expedition to the equator to learn the true figure of the Earth. However, Spain maintained strict control over the colonies’ access to books and other Europeans’ access to the colonies. Caldas, with a fervent interest in science and lacking the educational resources and personal contacts available in Europe, developed a scientific program based on what was available to him. The arrival of the Prussian naturalist, Alexander von Humboldt, brought to a head Caldas’s discontent with his own isolation from the European community. Black and white illustrations.

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Joseph Mali

Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment

$45.00

As the essays in this collection make plain, Isaiah Berlin invented neither the term "Counter-Enlightenment" nor the concept. However, more than any other figure since the eighteenth century, Berlin appropriated the term, made it the heart of his own political thought, and imbued his interpretations of particular thinkers with its meanings and significance. His diverse treatment of writers at the margins of the Enlightenment, who themselves reflected upon what they took to be its central currents, were at once historical and philosophical. Berlin sought to show that our patterns of culture, manufactured by ourselves, must be explained differently from the ways in which we seek to fathom laws of nature.

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American Philosophical Society

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 20, Part 3, 1902

$95.00

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

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Edward C. Carter II

Three Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806

$90.00

The Lewis & Clark Expedition of 1804-06 was the greatest act of exploration in the history of the U.S. This historic enterprise explored the Western U.S. along a route beginning near St. Louis & traveled up the Missouri River, over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Columbia River & had several return routes. Pres. Thomas Jefferson planned the enterprise, assisted by members of the nation’s first & most distinguished learned society, The Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS). This set, issued by the APS, includes 3 facsimile vol. from the Expedition. Codices: Codex A -- Clark, Jrnl, 5/13/04-8/14/04; Codex E -- Lewis, Jrnl. 5/24/05-7/16/05; & Codex J -- Lewis, Jrnl., 1/1/06-3/20/06. Includes a 30-page introduction. Unique!

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Benjamin Franklin

Essays by Benjamin Franklin

$40.00

These essays have been collected and edited by the Amer. Philosophical Soc., of which Franklin was a founder, to honor the Society’s 275th Anniversary. Contents: Letter to Mr. Nairne, of London, from Dr. Franklin, Proposing a Slowly Sensible Hygrometer for Certain Purposes; A Letter from Dr. B. Franklin, to Dr. Ingenhausz, Physician to the Emperor, at Vienna, on the Causes and Cures of Smokey Chimneys; Description of a New Stove for Burning of Pitcoal, and Consuming All Its Smoke, by Dr. Franklin; A Letter from Dr. Franklin, to Mr. Alphonsus le Roy, Member of Several Academies, at Paris. Containing Sundry Maritime Observations. Illus.

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Jon E. Kalb

Fossil Elephantoids

$45.00

This is a print on demand publication. From 1975-1978, the Rift Valley Research Mission in Ethiopia recovered the most diverse collection of elephantoids known from a single area, from the Middle Awash Valley in the southwestern Afar Depression. This report describes in detail the elephantoids from the middle Awash region, from the pre-Hadar Adu-Asa & Sagantole formations to the post-Hadar Matabaietu & Wehaietu formations. It also reports on the fossil elephants from the Hadar Formation itself & notes elephantoids collected from deposits north of Hadar & south of the Middle Awash (the Chorora region). Also, this study describes the relationships of the Awash “Anancus” to other “Anancus” in Africa, & to other late surviving “gomphotheres.” Extensive illustrations.

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E. C. Case

Census of the Determinable Genera of the Stegocephalia

$90.00

This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. Over 180 illustrations.

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American Philosophical Society

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 15, Part 1, 1873

$95.00

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

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William B. Scott

Mammalia of the Duchesne River Oligocene

$90.00

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Illustrations.

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Ronald K. Huch

Joseph Hume

$45.00

When Scotsman Joseph Hume died in 1855 his contemporaries assumed he would be remembered as one of the most important politicians of his time. He was a champion of free-trade principles & radical reform. Though Hume never held office, he was in the forefront of nearly every major reform endeavor in the first half of the 19th century. He rose to popularity on the basis of his attack on government spending. Like most other free traders, Hume believed that no government could be satisfactory until it recognized the full measure of citizen freedom, whether that involved economic liberty, civil liberty, or religious liberty. Bibliography.

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Louis Gottschalk

Letters of Lafayette to Washington, 1777-1799 (rev. ed.)

$115.00

The friendship between Lafayette & Washington began slowly but had developed fully by late 1777. By the time Lafayette’s military service in America had come to an end, they were good friends. During the course of their correspondence Lafayette discussed all manner of public & private events & aspirations with Washington. Thus his letters furnish an intimate & revealing account of great events & of the great & near-great men who were a part of them. These letters were first published in 1944 in a privately printed edition of 400 copies. The present editors have re-examined the manuscripts used for all the letters & have corrected the earlier reading wherever historical accuracy requires it. A new preface presents revised interpretations of some of the letters.

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American Philosophical Society

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 12, Part 1, 1862

$95.00

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

American Philosophical Society

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 11, 1860

$95.00

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

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Ariel Bar-Sela

Moses Maimonides’ Two Treatises on the Regimen of Health

$90.00

This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

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William Roach

Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes

$40.00

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William Roach

Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes

$90.00

Between 1949 and 1983, William Roach produced the sole modern ed. of the First, Second, and Manessier Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes, based on all the manuscripts. Most vol. are out of print, but the popularity of King Arthur and the Grail legend keeps interest in the subject high. Vol. I, containing the Mixed Redaction of the First Continuatio -- where Gauvain in the principal character -- is once again avail. This new ed., entirely re-set, incorporates all of the corrections indicated by Roach. The extensive introduction has been brought up-to-date. There are many new notes to the text, and a complete bibliography. A subject index to the notes provides easy access to the wealth of grammatical and linguistic analysis they contain.

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Leonardo Taran

Academica

$115.00

Contents: Part I: (I) Plato and the Authorship of the “Epinomis”; (II) Platonic “topoi” and the Structure of the “Epinomis”; (III) Philip of Opus; (IV) The “Epinomis,” Aristotle, and the Early Academy; and (V) The Influence of the “Epinomis” on the Formation of a Platonic Dogma; Part II: The Manuscripts of the “Epinomis”; The Indirect Tradition; Modern Editions; “Sigla”; Text; Commentary; Appendix I: Repertory of Conjectures on the “Epinomis”; Appendix II: On the Greek Word “habit” in Plato, Speusippus, and Aristotle; List of Abbreviations; Bibliography; Addenda; Indices: Ancient Passages, Proper Names, and Grammatical and Lexicographical; and Errata.

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Alfred E. Cornebise

Soldier-Scholars

$45.00

A study of the educational opportunities offered after WW1 to Amer. soldiers of the Amer. Expeditionary Forces (AEF). Some stayed in Europe and studied art, attended classes at the Sorbonne, took medical courses at London’s Fellowship of Med., read law at the Inns of Court, enrolled in veterinary classes at the Univ. of Edinburgh, and studied French culture and language at numerous French univ. and inst. About 10,000 men were involved in these programs. In addition, 10,000 soldier-students attended the AEF’s own univ. at Beaune. For a few months in the spring of 1919, this univ. was the largest in the English-speaking world. Other educational opportunities of various sorts were made available to virtually every soldier in the AEF. Illustrations.

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Frank M. Chambers

Old Provencal Versification

$60.00

The major portion of this study is devoted to the lyric poems of the 12th & 13th century which constitute Southern France’s greatest contribution to world literature. Nevertheless, chronology requires that this study begins by glancing briefly at two narrative pieces, the oldest Provencal poems of which we have any knowledge. Contents: The Earliest Provencal Verse: “Boeci,” & the “Chanson de Sainte Foy”; Guilhem VII, Comte de Peitieu (or Peiteus); Marcabru; Marcabru’s Contemporaries; “Trobar clus”; “Trobar leu”; The Generation of ‘80; Thematic Genres in the 13th Century; Genres Based on Form; Non-lyric Genres; & Bibliography.

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B. David Stollar

Out of Nazi Germany in Time, a Gift to American Science

$45.00

When Adolf Hitler became Germany’s Reich chancellor in 1933, Dr. Gerhard Schmidt knew his world was crashing around him. A highly cultured assimilated Jew, he studied medicine, trained in biochemistry, and attained a faculty position at the Univ. of Frankfurt. Two months after Hitler’s rise, Dr. Schmidt lost his position, his father, and his country. He began a 7-year odyssey, with short-term research fellowships in Italy, Sweden, Canada, and the U.S. He was recruited to the Tufts Univ. School of Medicine in 1940. Dr. Schmidt remained at Tufts for the rest of his career, and was elected to the U.S. National Acad. of Sciences in 1973. He considered his post-Germany successes in science and family a victory over Nazism. Photos.

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Alan W. Armstrong

Forget not Mee and My Garden . . .

$60.00

Forget not Mee & My Garden. . . , Peter Collinson wrote his Maryland friend George Robins in 1721. "If you have any Shells, Curious Stones, or any other Naturall Curiosity Remember Mee. I want one of your Humming Birds which you may send dry'd in its Feathers, and any Curious Insect." This theme echoed through Collinson's letters for the rest of his life, along with thanks for rarities received, introductions, cultivation instructions, encouragements, importunings, queries. Armstrong describes Collinson's correspondence as, "vigorous, brisk, and emphatic." His letters talk mainly of plants, but there are also antiquities, birds, butterflies, British imperial interests, sheep management in Spain, electricity, weather, fossils, insects, earthquakes, vine culture, Colonial policy, tithes, wars, terrapins, "an Infalible Remedy for the bite of a Mad Dog,' red Indians, astronomy, the making of salt, cheese fairs, the price of wheat, the power of snakes to charm, the Spanish threat to Florida, geology, French expansion," Hints . . . to Incorporate the Germans more with the [Pennsylvania] English. . . , the history of rice growing, premiums to encourage the production of silk, whether swallows migrate or winter-over under water, "Old Hock" as a remedy for gout, thundergusts, magnetism, Bezoar stones, & now & then a Quakerly comment. This selection of 187 letters is enhanced with over 120 illustrations (portraits and botanical drawings among them), some by Mark Catesby, Georg Dionysius Ehret, William Bartram, many in color. Includes notes & commentary for most letters.

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Steven E. Fields

Ground Sloth

$40.00

“Megalonyx” is one of the most widely distributed taxa of ground sloths in North America. Numerous Pleistocene sites contain isolated fossil elements. However, most fossils are of late Rancholabrean age, and relatively few “Megalonyx” fossils have been found in the southeastern United States outside of Florida. This work is unique because it describes more than 250 fossil elements from a single site of Irvingtonian age in South Carolina. It also includes detailed measurements of all teeth and postcranial elements. Morphometrics offers insights into hypsodonty and body mass, and comparisons with other “Megalonyx” across space and time suggest a need to revisit the current taxonomy. Illustrations.

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Albert J. Schmidt

Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow

$45.00

Dr. Schmidt describes the building & planning schemes in Moscow from approx. the accession of Catherine the Great in the early 1760s to the mid-reign of Nicholas I, about 1840. The author maintains that despite the enormous destruction of historic Moscow caused by the reordering of Gorkii (the old Tverskaia) St. & the Kalinin Prospect (the Arbat) under Stalin & Khrushchev, there still exists a significant remnant of the classical city which rose from the ashes of the great fire in 1812. The architects of the classical city--Catherine’s builders, Vasilii Bazhenov & Matvei Kazakov, & those who rebuilt Moscow after 1812, Osip Bove, Domenico Giliardi, & Afanasii Grigor’ev--are featured together with their individual architectural creations as well as their broader city-planning accomplishments. In many respects an atlas of the boulevards & thoroughfares of central Moscow, this book both recreates the Moscow of another era & adds to the understanding of the contours & character of the modern Soviet metropolis. Illus.

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Nicholas R. Lawrence

Ordinary Mysteries

$60.00

From the summer of 1842 through the fall of 1843, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne kept a common journal of their daily lives in a notebook. The journal records the ordinary events and activities that occupied them as newlyweds: walks through the countryside around Concord, appraisals of their new home, encounters with neighbors (among them Emerson, Fuller, and Thoreau), descriptions of the weather and the changing seasons -- all material that Hawthorne would later draw on for the preface to his second collection of tales, “Mosses from an Old Manse” (1846). Its most persistent note, however, is the mutual expression of marital happiness. This volume makes available for the first time a full facsimile edition of the journal.

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American Philosophical Society

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 17, Part 3, 1893

$95.00

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

American Philosophical Society

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 2, 1825

$95.00

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

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Lloyd W. Daly

Iohannis Philoponi

$45.00

To anyone who has ever examined in any of its printed forms the little work on Greek words which differ in meaning according to difference in accent, which is attributed to John Philoponus, it must be evident that this text is of interest to the historian of lexicography or of pedagogy rather than to the lexicographer. The work offers pairs of words the members of which, according to the title, differ from one another only in accent & meaning. The preserved form of this text represents the nadir of learning, for it was part of one of the mainstreams of lexicography. Contents of this study: An introduction to the work by John Philoponus; the Greek text of Recensio A, Recensio B, Recensio C, Recensio D, & Recensio E; & Comparatio Numerorum.

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Michael G. Brennan

Letters of Rowland Whyte (1595-1608)

$115.00

Provides the first complete edition, annotated and with modernized spelling, of these important late-Elizabethan letters, written by Rowland Whyte as the personal agent and advisor at court of Robert Sidney, Viscount Lisle and first Earl of Leicester. His series of 292 surviving letters to Sidney, written between September 1595 and December 1602, were partly intended as intelligence documents, keeping Sidney fully briefed on court affairs and gossip. This edition also includes a shorter sequence of Whyte’s surviving letters to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, concerning the marriage of Talbot’s daughter, Lady Mary, to Robert Sidney’s rich and increasingly powerful nephew, William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. A useful resource for the last years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Illus.

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Barbara E. Lacey

The Illustrated Imprints of Isaiah Thomas

$40.00

Isaiah Thomas was a leading 18th-cent. patriot, printer, publisher, and bookseller in the tradition of Benjamin Franklin. Founder of the Amer. Antiquarian Soc., he donated his library and newspaper files to the Society’s archive. Here, Lacey offers a representative sampling of the illustrated publications of the Massachusetts printer to show the great variety of 18th-cent. American imprints that used images to enhance or modify the meaning of the text. She bridges the gap between several scholarly fields, including art history, literary criticism, the study of visual culture, and the history of the book. Illustrations are not judged exclusively on their artistic merit; they are analyzed for what they say about early American values, ideas, attitudes, and assumptions. Illus.

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Lionel Gossman

Spreading the Word

$45.00

A disproportionate number of the great publishing houses of the English-speaking world - -Blackie, Blackwood, Collins, Constable, Macmillan, Millar, Murray, Nelson, Smith and Elder, Strahan -- were founded after the Treaty of Union in 1707, by men, often of humble origin, from “north of the border” (Scotland). Many of the now classic English writers of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries were personally encouraged by the men running these companies, nearly all of whom were also committed, for cultural as well as commercial reasons, to making literature in English accessible to all. This essay offers a comprehensive, yet short overview of this remarkable Scottish contribution to English literary history. Illus.

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Edward C. Carter II

Surveying the Record

$60.00

Papers given at a conference on Scientific Exploration in North America to 1930 with topics including Cartography, Oceanic Exploration, Art, Anthropology, Lewis and Clark, and the West. This book adds much to our quest for knowledge of who and where we are by illuminating such themes as the role of maps and mapmaking in defining our national identify, the origins of Western exploration, the cultural clash found in the best-selling account of a 19th-century physician-explorer with Arctic peoples, the role of art in the service of science in bringing these newly discovered places and peoples into the Amer. parlor, and the impact of Mormon farming techniques on John Wesley Powell’s famed 1878 Arid Region Report. Black and white maps and illus.

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Jay Robert Stiefel

The Cabinetmaker’s Account

$60.00

English joiner John Head (1688-1754) immigrated to Philadelphia in 1717 and became one of its most successful artisans and merchants. His prominence had been lost to history until the discovery of his account book at the Amer. Philosophical Soc. The earliest and most complete account book to have survived from any cabinetmaker working in Brit. North Amer. or in Great Britain, it records thousands of transactions over a 35-year period (1718-1753). This volume represents the definitive interpretation of the Head’s account book. Profusely illustrated and with a comprehensive general index, it is an essential reference work on 18th-cent. Phila., its furniture and material culture, and a detailed social history of that era’s artisans and merchants.

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Luna Bergere Leopold

A Life for Water

$60.00

Luna Leopold (1915-2006) is widely viewed as the foremost student of rivers of the 20th century. This volume presents a selection of informal essays written over the course of his long career. These essays complement his professional articles and books, and they illustrate how he became increasingly concerned with environmental degradation. Leopold argued forcefully that engineering solutions should be ethically framed as well as practical, and with that in mind, in 1969 he drafted the first environmental impact statement. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1991 Illus.

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June Z. Fullmer

Young Humphry Davy

$60.00

Humphry Davy’s contemporaries bestowed on him their highest honors. Since Davy’s death in 1829, each scholarly generation has accrued info. about him & his colleagues. His startling discoveries of the scientifically novel, his isolation & identification of 7 new elements, & his association of electrical properties & chemical behavior coupled with his fame as a lecturer, made him a popular cultural hero. Others saw him as the man who had made agriculture “scientific.” Davy’s refusal to profit financially from his invention of the miners’ safety lamp endeared him to those humanitarians who idealized scientists as members of an altruistic brotherhood. Here is a readable, thoroughly researched biography of Davy’s early life. Illus.

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Crawford H. Greenewalt

Flight of Birds. The Significant Dimensions, Their Departure from the Requirements for Dimensional Similarity, and the Effect on Flight Aerodynamics of that Departure

$90.00

This is a print on demand edition of a hard-to-find journal.

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Julius Rubin

Canal or Railroad? Imitation and Innovation in the Response to the Erie Canal in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston

$90.00

This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. Illustrations.

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Edwin Wolf 2nd

Library of Benjamin Franklin

$115.00

Beginning in the 1950s, Edwin Wolf 2nd embarked on a biblio’l. quest to reconstruct the library of Benjamin Franklin, which was the largest & best private library in Amer. at the time of his death & was subsequently dispersed. The contents of Franklin’s library were virtually unknown until Wolf identified the unique shelfmarks that Franklin used to organize his books. That discovery allowed Wolf to locate 2,700 titles in 1,000 vols. that Franklin actually owned. Wolf also identified a further 700 titles owned by Franklin. After wolf’s death, Kevin Hayes took up the project & brought it to fruition. This catalogue includes almost 4,000 books known to have been owned by Franklin, & the Intro. tells the complete story of Franklin’s library, its dispersal, & its reconstruction.

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Albert E. Wood

Early Tertiary Rodents of the Family Paramyidae

$90.00

This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. 91 figures.

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Norman Fiering

James Logan’s “The Duties of Man As They May Be Deduced from Nature”

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James Logan (1674-1751) of Philadelphia was a luminary with few equals in British America in the first half of the 18th century. He amassed the largest scholar’s library in the colonies, wrote and published on botanical science and optics, was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer, and a master of languages ancient and modern. As the representative of the Penn family in the colony, he was enmeshed in Pennsylvania politics, holding several major positions, including Chief Justice. In 1734 Logan turned his creative drive to moral philosophy, He compiled six or seven chapters, but in the end could not finish his treatise, and they survived only in a manuscript which was found about 1969. This analysis gives Logan’s effort new life.

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Harry Liebersohn

My Life in Germany Before and after January 30, 1933

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This collection of memoirs by refugees from Nazi Germany is a rich source of autobiographical information on the Nazi era. Housed at Houghton Library of Harvard University, it consists of 263 files containing the memoirs of approximately 230 people who lived in Germany or Austria during the 1930s. The stories of the memoirists encompass an almost bewildering range of human experience. The authors come from Danzig and Berlin, from central Germany and the Southwest, from Munich and from Vienna. They are Jews and Catholics and Protestants, and mixtures of these all-too-neat categories in their origins and marriages. They are peddlers and professors, machinists and lawyers, private housewives and public activists. They are conservatives and liberals and Communists. The strongest common bond was their exile.

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American Philosophical Society

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 14, Part 3, 1871

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From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

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David W. Maxey

Treason on Trial in Revolutionary Pennsylvania

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In the fall of 1778 John Roberts, a prosperous Quaker miller who owned valuable property located about 10 miles from Phila., stood trial before a jury that found him guilty of having committed treason. If not entirely innocent, did Roberts nevertheless deserve a trip to the gallows a month after the jury returned its verdict? Relying on two long-neglected contemporary records of this treason trial, Maxey explores in depth the issue of Roberts’s guilt while capturing the atmosphere of confusion, conflicting loyalties, political bickering, and religious tension that prevailed in and around Phila. during that period. This is a study, replete in characters and contradictions, of the American Revolution as a civil war that divided neighbors and neighborhoods and of pardon that came haltingly when it came at all. Illus.

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American Philosophical Society

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 10, 1853

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From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

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Michael Chenoweth

18th Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786

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Thomas Thistlewood is known for his daily records of life on a slave plantation in eighteenth-century Jamaica. Thistlewood's previously unexamined weather journal is shown here to be the most important written record from the Earth's tropical regions available. His observation methods are superior to most of his contemporaries & provide a high-quality daily record of more than 35 years. Comparison of his records with modern weather records indicates that Thistlewood's Jamaica was a much cooler & moister place than in modern times. A 252-year record of tropical storm & hurricane frequency in Jamaica reveals that the late 20th-century minimum in storm frequency is unprecedented.

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American Philosophical Society

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 4, 1834

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Morris Harold Saffron

Maurus of Salerno

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Sabine Schmidtke

Beginnings of Shi’i Studies in Germany

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Rudolf Strothmann (1877–1960) played a pioneering role in the scholarly exploration of Shīʿī Islam in Western, especially German, scholarship. Between 1910 and 1923, he published many pathbreaking studies on the Zaydiyya, a sub-sect of Shia Islam that emerged in the eighth century, consulting primarily the recently purchased collections of Yemeni Zaydī manuscripts in Berlin. At the same time Strothmann delved into the literature of the most dominant form of Islam, known as Twelver Shī ʿī. This endeavor culminated in his 1926 monograph, Die Zwölfer-Schī ʿa: Zwei religionsgeschichtliche Charakterbilder aus der Mongolenzeit, a portrait of two prominent seventh- and thirteenth-century Imāmī scholars—Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672/1274) and Raḍī al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Mūsā Ibn Ṭāwūs (d. 664/1266).

Strothmann’s published work testifies to his erudition and versatility and continues to form an important point of departure for scholars working on different aspects of Shī ʿism in the early twenty-first century. In addition, his use of the manuscript treasures in the Berlin State Library between 1908 and 1926 reflects his evolution as a scholar over those years. Sabine Schmidtke examines these earlier decades of Strothmann’s life and his development as a theologian and a scholar of Semitic languages and Islamic culture.

Schmidtke also explores Strothman’s correspondence with Carl Heinrich Beker, Ignaz Godziher, Eugenio Griffini, and Cornelis van Arendonk to shed further light on this period of his thought. The book includes an annotated edition of this correspondence, making it a valuable resource for further research.

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John A. Rice

Temple of Night at Schonau

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Between 1796 & 1800 Baron Peter von Braun, a rich businessman & manager of Vienna’s court theaters, transformed his estate at Schonau into an English-style landscape park. The most celebrated building was the Temple of Night, a domed rotunda accessible only through a meandering rockwork grotto. A life-size statue of the goddess Night on a chariot pulled by two horses presided over the Temple, while from the dome, came the sounds of a mechanical musical instrument. Only the ruins survive, & the Temple has received little scholarly attention. This book brings it back to life by assembling the descriptions of it by early 19th-cent. eyewitnesses. “Will appeal to anyone interested in the history of garden design, arch., theater, & music.” Illus.

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Hans Cristoph Wolfart

Plains Cree

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Martha Coleman Bray

Joseph Nicollet and His Map

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A biography of Joseph Nicollet, the brave & tireless explorer in 1838 & 1839 of the great northwestern triangle between the Missouri & the upper Mississippi rivers. Author Martha Coleman Bray has founded her very readable story on Nicollet’s journals, survey documents, correspondence, & published writings. Trained as an astronomer in Paris, Nicollet came to America after the revolution of 1830. His early travels took him to the South & to the sources of the Mississippi River. He won the confidence of the leaders of the newly-founded Corps of Topographical Engineers (precursor of the U.S. Geological Survey) & with John Charles Fremont as his assistant, he led the first of two expeditions to the Northwest. The superb “Map of the Hydrographic Basin of the Upper Mississippi River,” which resulted from these expeditions, was basic to the further exploration of the West & is our only source of Indian names of landscape features of the region. The “Report” which accompanied the map reveals Nicollet’s breadth of knowledge which brought him into the liveliest scientific circles of the U.S. He died in Washington in 1843. 300 illlus. & a fold-out map.

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American Philosophical Society

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 7, 1841

$95.00

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American Philosophical Society

Yearbook, American Philosophical Society (1998-1999)

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Everett C. Olson

Late Permian Terrestrial Vertebrates, U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.

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Slowly, over more than a century & a quarter, the history of Permian terrestrial vertebrates has been pieced together by discovery & study of fossil-bearing strata in all of the continents except Australia & Antarctica. The decade of the 1950s has been exciting from the standpoint of new discoveries both in North America & abroad. New finds have gone far toward bridging the gaps between the lower & upper Permian & have presented new & quite revolutionary data on the distribution of Permian terrestrial faunas. Contents of this study: Introduction; Systematics; Geology; Interpretations; & Evolution. Illustrations. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

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Stephen K. Victor

Practical Geometry in the High Middle Ages

$115.00

Contents: (I) The Place of Practical Geometry in the Middle Ages: The Nature of Practical Geometry; Practical Geometry in Education; Theory and Practice in Geometry; and Practical Geometry and Practical Concerns; (II) The Contents of “Artis cuiuslibet consummatio” and the “Pratike de geometrie”; (III) Procedures in the Editions, Translations, and Commentary: Editing “Artis cuiuslibet consummatio”; Editing the “Pratike de geometrie”; Translating the Texts; and About the commentary; and (IV) English translation of “Arts cuiuslibet consummatio” and of the “Pratike de geometrie.” Selected Bibliography, Index of Latin Technical Terms, Index of Old French Technical Terms, and Index of Astronomical Parameters. Illus.

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John Francis McDermott

Western Journals of Dr. George Hunter, 1796-1805

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Douglas W. Wamsley

Polar Hayes

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In the mid-19th century, Dr. Isaac Israel Hayes was a member of the Amer. arctic expedition under the command of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane in search of the lost British explorer Sir John Franklin. Through his own hard fought experiences, combined with the knowledge learned from Polar Eskimos, he successfully influenced the course of Arctic discovery. As an elected politician in New York State during its Gilded Age, Hayes served the ‘public good’ for a decade, with accomplishments as far reaching as his Arctic service. In this book, the story emerges of a remarkable but forgotten explorer, writer, politician, and humanitarian who epitomized the rugged and restless spirit of adventure and individualism of 19th-century America. Illustrations.

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Mark J. Dresden

Jatakastava or “Praise of the Buddha’s Former Births”

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Yung Sik Kim

Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)

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Chu Hsi (1130-1200) exerted a lasting influence on the thought and life of the Chinese in subsequent cent. The core of his synthesis was moral and social philosophy, but it also included knowledge about the natural world. His doctrine of ke-wu (invest. of things) made him mindful of the specialized knowledged in such “scientific” traditions as astronomy, harmonics, med., etc. This study of Chu Hsi’s thought gives a systematic account of the basic concepts of his natural philosophy. Also discusses Chu Hsi’s actual knowledge about the natural world. And examines the relation between Chu Hsi and Chinese “scientific” traditions and compares his natural knowledge with that of the Western scientific tradition.

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Victoria R. Bricker

Transformational Journeys

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This is the professional memoir of an ethnologist, who studies the cultures and languages of ethnic groups, in the present and in the past. Bricker’s journeys -- from Hong Kong to Shanghai during World War II, to the U.S. after the war, to Germany, Harvard, southeastern Mexico, and eventually to New Orleans -- influenced her choice of ethnology as a career and shaped that career over 50 years. Ethnology served as the stepping stone for intellectual forays into other related fields, such as linguistics, ethnohistory, epigraphy, and astronomy, all focused on the Maya people of southern Mexico and Central America. Bricker, a Professor Emerita, is the author, with her husband, Harvey Bricker (1940-2017), of “Astronomy in the Maya Codices.” Illus.

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Christiane Groeben

Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876) and Anton Dohrn (1840-1909)

$45.00

In 1869 Anton Dohrn wrote to Karl Ernst von Baer to enlist his help in supporting the Stazione Zoologica that would soon be set up in Naples. This was the first of an exchange of 36 letters between Anton Dohrn and von Baer that constitutes the principal portion of this correspondence; there is almost a complete record of this correspondence, wherein one extant letter replies to another. Contents of this volume: Editorial Remarks and Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Chronological List of the Letters; Letters 1-41; Appendix: Briefe 1-41; Bibliography; and Index of Names. Illustrations.

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Carl P. Springer

Manuscripts of Sedulius

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Sidney David Markman

Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico

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Covers colonial architecture in the two westernmost provinces of the Reino de Guatemala: Audiencia & Capitania General -- a region largely isolated from the rest of Central America & Mexico until recent times. The buildings of this region (known as Chiapas) reflect the soc. that produced them: the geographical setting, the conquest & Christianization of the natives, & the ethnic composition of the population. 47 buildings are discussed supported by material from contemporary sources as well as by photos & measurements gathered on the sites. This catalog of archival texts will be useful not only to historians of art & architecture, but also to archaeologists, anthropologists, & ethnohistorians working in Chiapas. Photos & drawings.

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Helen H. Roberts

Songs of the Nootka Indians of Western Vancouver Island

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Francesco Scalamonti

Vita Viri Clarissimi et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani

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This is a print on demand Publication. Ciriaco di Filippo de’ Pizzicolli (b. 1391) was the most prolific recorder of Greek & Roman antiquities, particularly inscriptions, in the 15th cent.; he is entitled to be called the founding father of modern classical archaeology. Of his early life our knowledge rests mostly on the materials for a “Vita” put together by his friend Francesco Scalamonti, which largely reproduces Ciriaco’s own records & carries his biography down to 1435. This “Vita” survives in a single manuscript published in 1792. The editors have re-edited Scalamonti’s “Vita” from the original mss. with a translation. Also includes an intro. to the text & its previous pub., its authorship, its sources, & its likely date of composition. Concludes with a chronology of the events narrated in the “Vita.”

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Kerith Marshall Jones III

John Laurance

$60.00

This long overdue biography of English-born N.Y. lawyer John Laurance (1760-1810) restores an important missing piece to the founding narrative of the U.S. It describes the middling Cornish emigre’s against-all-odds passage to Federalist America’s governing inner circle. Laurance spent 5 wartime years as Gen. Washington’s “courtroom Baron von Steuben” and was battlefield father of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate Corps. Never defeated for electoral office, Col. Laurance spoke as N.Y.C.’s post-war pro-mercantile voice in the Confederation Congress, state legislature, and both houses of the fledgling federal Congress. This biography casts fresh light on the rise and fall of America’s first political Party, the Federalists. Illus.

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Robert L. Carroll

Order Microsauria

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This volume discusses in particular the suggested relationship of microsaurs with reptiles and the determination of the ancestry of the various groups of living amphibians. Twenty-five general of microsaurs are recognized in this work. Contents: History of the Microsaur Concept; Definition of Micrausaurs; Methods of Study; Taxonomy; Systematic Description; Comparative Anatomy; Relationships of Microsaurs; Geological and Geographical Distribution and Biology of Microsaurs; Summary; and References Cites. Illustrations.

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Jan T. Hallenbeck

Pavia and Rome

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Elizabeth Read Foster

Painful Labor of Mr. Elsyng

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Owen Gingerich

Eleven-digit Regular Sexagesimals and Their Recipricols

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American Philosophical Society

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 20, Part 2, 1901

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From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

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George F. Bass

Cape Gelidonya

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This book forms the final report of the underwater excavation which the author directed at Cape Gelidonya, Turkey, in 1960, for the Univ. Museum of the Univ. of PA. The formation of such a novel excavation, involving divers and equipment from five countries, took an unusual amount of paperwork. This report was written with the collaboration of Peter Throckmorton, Joan du Plat Taylor, J.B. Hennessy, Alan R. Shulman, and Hans-Gunter Buchholz. Contents: The Discovery; The Excavation; Condition and Treatment of Finds; The Ship and Its Lading; The Ingots; The Bronzes; The Pottery; The Stone Objects; Miscellaneous Finds; The Weights; The Scarabs; The Cylinder Seal; Basketry and Matting. Bibliography. Illustrations. A print on demand publication.

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Martin A. Heckscher

Universal Bach

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This volume is a fitting commemorative of the Basically Bach Festival’s celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Festival was organized by a small committee in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia in 1976. Contents: Musical & Numerical Symbolism in the Large Choral Works: Bach’s Secret Code, by Michael Korn; The Articulation of Genre in Bach’s Instrumental Music, by Laurence Dreyfus; Bach the Cantor, the Capellmeister, & the Musical Scholar: Aspects of the “B-Minor Mass,” by Christoph Wolff; On Bach’s Universality, by Robert L. Marshall; & Bach as Biblical Interpreter, by Richard L. Jeske. Illustrations.

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Gunther S. Stent

Paradoxes of Free Will

$45.00

Driving human reason too far in the analysis of deep problems often leads to irresolvable inconsistencies and contradictions. In this 2002 J.F. Lewis Award-winning monograph, Gunther Stent traces the origins and development of the paradoxes of free will in this well-crafted introduction to philosophical debates regarding freedom of will. Free will poses one of the oldest and most vexatious philosophical problems, dating back to the beginnings of moral philosophy in ancient Greece. Pure theoretical reason implies that our actions are determined, while practical theoretical reason tells us that our will is free. Stent examines the arguments of moral responsibility versus determinism, from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Immanuel Kant, Niels Bohr, and Max Planck.

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Ilsetraut Hadot

Studies on the Neoplatonist Hierocles

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An updated & slightly abridged English translation of the author’s previous work on the 5th century B.C. Neoplatonist Hierocles, published in various places. This work allows Hierocles’ median position in the history of Neoplatonic philosophy, between Iamblichus & Syrianus-Proclus, to emerge. Contents: (I) Biographical Elements; (II) Hierocles’ Ideas on the History of Platonic Philosophy; (III) Hierocles’ Philosophical Ideas on Matter, the Demiurge, & the Soul; & (IV) Hierocles’ Philosophical Ideas on Providence. Translated from the French.

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George Boas

Some Assumptions of Aristotle

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Sue Ann Prince

Of Elephants & Roses

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This illustrated book explores the fascinating history of the natural sciences in the turbulent years of post-revolutionary and Restoration France, from Empress Josephine’s black swans and rare Franklinia tree to a giraffe that walked 480 miles across France to greet the king. It is the catalogue for an international loan exhibition held in 2011 at the APS Museum in Philadelphia and the record of an associated interdisciplinary symposium held at the American Philosophical Society (APS) on December 1-3, 2011. The essays, commentaries, and discussions present new perspectives on French natural history, its influence on French culture, and its ties to the natural sciences in North America. Contributors include art historians, historians of science, and scholars of French literature, history, and culture. Illus.

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American Philosophical Society

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 6, 1839

$95.00

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

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J. A. Fernandez-Santamaria

Theater of Man

$45.00

Born in Spain and long-time resident of Bruges, Juan Luis Vives is one of the keenest, and most neglected, minds of the northern Renaissance. A many-sided intellect and critical observer of the contemporary scene, Vives' contribution includes treatises on metaphysics, psychology, education, rhetoric, logic, religion, and social reform. And it is precisely the central premise of this monograph that what links these diverse works together and turns Vives literary production into a whole larger than the sum of its parts is the author's single-minded commitment to the Socratic dictum that an unexamined life is not worth living. But because man's Fall caused him to lose his pristine ability to accomplish that task as an individual, he must now do it in the context of a God-mandated, man-created institution: society, whose origins and evolution Vives explains in Stoic terms. Building on a foundation of Socratic/ Aristotelian optimism and Augustinian pessimism, he concludes that social man can indeed reach the bonitas which alone makes beatitude possible. But at a price, for Vives the Skeptic insists that man must forego the use of that ratio speculativa which seduces him into thinking that he can probe into nature's being and understand his own divine nature.

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Murray B. Emeneau

Toda Grammar and Texts

$80.00

The Todas are a small community who live on the isolated Nilgiri plateau in S. India. They lived there in aboriginal days, i.e. prior to the early 19th cent., in coexist. with other jungle communities. The local social org. was a cast-like system in which the Todas were the top-ranking community. Their population is a minuscule group within the enormous population of India or of the Dravidian part of India. However, the Todas have attracted a disproportionate amount of attention because of their difference from their neighbors in appearance, manners & customs. This study was based on linguistic data collected in a year of contact with the Todas in the 3-year period from mid-1935 to mid-1938. Contents: Grammar; Texts with Translation; & Commentary.

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Estelle Haan

Both English and Latin

$45.00

This study examines the interplay of Latin and English in a selection of John Milton’s neo-Latin writings. It argues that this interplay is indicative of an inherent bilingualism that proceeds hand-in-hand with a self-fashioning that is bicultural in essence. Interlingual flexibility ultimately proved central to the poet of Paradise Lost, an epic uniquely characterized by its Latinate vernacular and its vernacular Latinitas. Author Estelle Haan (Sheehan) is Professor of English and Neo-Latin Studies at The Queen’s University of Belfast. She is a well-known and well-respected Neo-Latinist who has published several volumes with the American Philosophical Soc. and has recently edited Milton’s Latin and Greek poetry for Oxford University Press.

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Arthur S. Marks

Capital Problem

$45.00

Explores the history, application, and accrued meanings of the attic order in America, beginning with Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who employed the order. The author traces the genealogy of the architectural influence as it passes from Latrobe to his disciples to their disciples. Latrobe saw “a singular exception, a unique design feature that, besides having a direct and indisputable association with ancient Greece, also offered Americans an architectural order that might be naturalized, that might be made their own.” The work is extremely fine-grained, and rich in references, especially to 18th- and 19th-century architectural literature. 45+ b& w plates.

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William Roach

Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes

$115.00

Vol. III, Part 2 contains the text of the Short Redaction of the First Continuation of Chretien’s “Perceval” according to MSS L, A, and R. It is apparent that, though the principal texts are of almost the same length, they differ quite considerably in details of expression. On the other hand, they contain the same episodes and have only minor differences of narrative, except in Section IV, Episode 5. Vol. III, Part 2 contains the Glossary of the First Continuation by Lucien Foulet. It is is based on the assumption that words, expressions, and forms which are readily comprehensible to any one who knows modern French need not be included. Originally published in 1952, & 1955; reprinted 1970.

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Erica Reiner

Adventure of Great Dimension

$45.00

Babylonian & Assyrian early civilizations left a vast corpus of records & scribes preserved through the medium of cuneiform writing on clay tablets. Reiner looks back on the last half-century & more of work on the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) project at the Oriental Inst. of Chicago, focusing on the reformulation of the task that took place during her years of participation in the 1950s & 1960s. This included intellectual clashes between scholars Thorkild Jacobsen & Leo Oppenheim. Benno Landsberger supported Oppenheim & helped to move the project forward. Oriental Inst. dir. Robert McC. Adams concurs in the course that has made the CAD one of the great humanistic achievements of our time.

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Charles Judson Herrick

Clarence Luther Herrick

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William Pettas

Sixteenth-Century Spanish Bookstore

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An article pub. in 1952 on early foreign printers in Burgos mentioned the existence in that city’s archives of a 1556 document concerning the shop of the printer-bookseller, Juan de Junta, an Italian by birth, son of the famous Florentine publisher Filippo di Giunta. The document is a legal contract written in 1556 by the notary Pedro de Espinosa for the lease of the Junta bookstore and print-shop in Burgos and also contains “a very interesting inventory of everything which was in the shop in that year.” Few contemporary documents give us as much primary evidence for the kinds of materials a 16th-cent. Spanish bookstore contained as this document does, for it provides the titles of all the books in the stock, the number of copies of each title, the costs of the individual books, in most cases the format of the book, and, in many cases, the city of publication or the name of the publisher.

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Albert D. Menut

Maistre Nicole Oresme

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Edward C. Carter II

“One Grand Pursuit”

$45.00

Edward C. Carter II began this project to create a souvenir for the American Philosophical Soc. (APS) 250th Anniversary Celebration in 1993. The APS is the oldest learned society in the U.S. and one of the most prestigious organizations of its kind in the world. The story of the APS and those men and women members who have helped promote useful knowledge throughout the years is an extraordinary story. The general observations on these achievements here are intended to serve as an introduction to this account of the APS. Now midway through its third century, its form and flavor remarkably little changed, the APS is engaged in promoting useful knowledge, as it has always been. Illustrations.

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William Berryman Scott, Glenn Lowell Jepsen and Albert Elmer Wood

The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene: Part III. Lagomorpha

$90.00

This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

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Paul M. Lloyd

From Latin to Spanish

$80.00

This volume was written to fill the need for a synthesis of the research that has illuminated much of the phonetic and morphological development of Spanish. Contents: On the Nature of Linguistic Change: Sound Change and Sound Laws, The Spread of a Sound Change, Causes of Sound Change, and Morphological Change: Analogy; The Latin Language; From Earlier to Later Latin; From Late Latin to Old Spanish; From Medieval to Modern Spanish; References; & Word and Morpheme Index. Illustrations. Third printing.

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Russell K. McCormmach

Cavendish

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Two gifted 18th-century Londoners, Lord Charles Cavendish and his preeminent son, the Honorable Henry Cavendish, were descendants of paired revolutions, one political and the other scientific. Scions of a powerful revolutionary family, they gave a highly original turn to their understanding of public service. Lord Charles began his career as a Member of Parliament and ended it as an officer of the Royal Society, and his son Henry made a complete life within science, in the course of which he demonstrated skills that rank him with the greatest scientists of all time. In the history of British aristocracy, in high tide following the revolutionary settlement, there was no action more remarkable than Henry Cavendish gently laying delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. Illustrations.